The Task: With Tirocinium, and Selections from the Minor Poems, A.D. 1784-1799Clarendon Press, 1896 - 283 páginas |
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Página ix
... received a silver groat for my exercise , and had the pleasure of seeing it sent from form to form for the admiration of all who were able to understand it . ' No wonder that we find him saying , in the same letter , ' He who cannot ...
... received a silver groat for my exercise , and had the pleasure of seeing it sent from form to form for the admiration of all who were able to understand it . ' No wonder that we find him saying , in the same letter , ' He who cannot ...
Página xviii
... received a visit from his brother John . When the latter heard the sufferer repeat his ' settled assurance of sudden judgment , ' he quietly told him that it was all a ' delusion . ' The words were caught up with eagerness . ' I burst ...
... received a visit from his brother John . When the latter heard the sufferer repeat his ' settled assurance of sudden judgment , ' he quietly told him that it was all a ' delusion . ' The words were caught up with eagerness . ' I burst ...
Página xxi
... received as a lodger and boarder with the family , Nov. 11 , 1765. With these dear friends he led a life of much regularity , in which however he was conscious of no monotony , in the enjoyment of those domestic pleasures which his ...
... received as a lodger and boarder with the family , Nov. 11 , 1765. With these dear friends he led a life of much regularity , in which however he was conscious of no monotony , in the enjoyment of those domestic pleasures which his ...
Página xxii
... received it . While the question was in debate a visitor arrived , who had been requested to call on them by Dr. Conyers , a Cambridge friend of young Unwin , and who is commemorated in the poem on Truth , as one who ' says much that ...
... received it . While the question was in debate a visitor arrived , who had been requested to call on them by Dr. Conyers , a Cambridge friend of young Unwin , and who is commemorated in the poem on Truth , as one who ' says much that ...
Página xxviii
... received indeed an answer , but such a one as I could by no means reply to : and there ended for it is impossible that it should be renewed - a friendship that bid fair to be lasting . ' The lady however viewed the matter in a different ...
... received indeed an answer , but such a one as I could by no means reply to : and there ended for it is impossible that it should be renewed - a friendship that bid fair to be lasting . ' The lady however viewed the matter in a different ...
Términos y frases comunes
Aeneid beauty beneath boast Bodham Book breath called charms Clifton Reynes Cowper Crown 8vo death delight died divine dream earth ease East Dereham Edited Emberton English Extra fcap fair fame Fancy fear feel flowers folly grace hand happy hast Hayley heart Heaven honour John John Gilpin King King Lear labour Lady Austen Lady Hesketh less live London Lord Lost Lover's Melancholy mind Nature Nature's Nebaioth never Newton o'er Olney Olney Hymns once Ormus peace perhaps pleasure poem Poet Poet's Pope's praise scene seems shine smile Sofa song soon soul spirit stiff covers sweet task taste thee thine thou art toil trees truth Unwin verse Virgil virtue W. W. SKEAT walk Warren Hastings Weston Weston Underwood William Cowper wind winter wisdom word worth ΙΟ
Pasajes populares
Página 51 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live.
Página 26 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 72 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 25 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Página 197 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Página 262 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 139 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us-! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Página 260 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 200 - I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renewed the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine : And, while the wings of Fancy still are free, And I can view this mimic show of thee, Time has but half succeeded in his theft — Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left.
Página 133 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.